Discipline in the Russian army

Extract from a report by Lieutenant
Colonel Blair, assistant military attaché in Petrograd, on discipline
in the Russian army, 29 September 1917.

Blair's report was written barely a month after 'the lamentable failure
of Kornilov's attempt to form a dictatorship' - a reference to the machinations
of the now dismissed commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Lavr Kornilov,
against Alexander Kerensky's Provisional Government in August. Prior to
the 'Kornilov affair', Blair argues, discipline and order was being restored
among Russian troops. The present situation, however, was as unfavourable
as it had been 'immediately after the [March] Revolution'.
Catalogue reference: WO 106/1037 (29 Sep 1917)